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SMARTcontrol Management Software now standard on Nova Series. BCDVideo announced the release of their SMARTcontrol Management Software (SMS). SMS is an evolution in health monitoring for physical security technology for both BCDVideo?s video recorder and access control server platforms.

Milestone Systems, the open platform company in IP video management software (VMS), spotlighted the award-winning XProtect® portfolio and sleek Husky NVRs in their busy stand at Intersec 2015, held in Dubai UAE last week. Seven Milestone Solution Partners were also exhibiting in the booth to present integrations based on Milestone open platform software. At the show, Milestone also talked about its growing activities in the Mideast and African (MEA) regions.

Delivering performance, scalability options and an array of business applications, these models fulfill mission-critical storage needs, with persistent throughput to balance resource-demanding applications. The TVS-x71U series supports QvPC technology that enables users to directly access stored data, monitor live surveillance feeds, play multimedia content, and much more with an HDMI display.

It?s a new year and with it comes the obligatory news media scare story regarding privacy and licence plate recognition (LPR or ANPR) technologies. If you haven?t seen it already, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday (January 26, 2015) on a Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) license-plate tracking program and database designed to trace the movements of drug traffickers in the United States. Is this sensationalism or true concerned journalism?

MorphoTrak announced that after only a year in operation, the Hawaii Criminal Justice Data Center in Honolulu is expanding access to its MorphoFace Investigate mugshot system to all counties in the state. The MorphoFace Investigate system provides fast and accurate facial searches, crosschecked against a database of more than 450,000 photos and videos of known identities.

NUUO Corporation, a professional, trusted video surveillance management solution partner, has announced its filing for an initial public offering. NUUO shared this news with customers that have collaborated with them over the past 10 years.

D-Link expanded its line of Home Automation solutions in a big way by introducing the Connected Home Hub and a range of Sensors and Sirens designed to keep DIY homeowners more in tune with what?s happening, whether home or away. The Connected Home Hub (DCH-G020) plugs into an existing home network router to act as a centralized control for D-Link® Connected Home devices by integrating Wi-Fi and Z-Wave wireless technologies and using the mydlink® Home app for iOS® and Android® devices.

Digital Watchdog, the industry leader in digital recorders, surveillance cameras and related management software, is proud to announce that our new multi-sensor 180-degree panoramic MEGApix® Pano™ cameras are now available. The cameras provide versatile solutions for multi-megapixel wide area surveillance with enough resolution to zoom in to reveal details in the image.

Due to the incredible success of its 2014 School Security In-Kind Grant program, Video Insight, a leading developer of enterprise IP video surveillance software, has increased the program fourfold for 2015 and will donate $1 million in grants to underfunded school systems across the United States.

WavestoreUSA, a world class innovator in open platform digital video storage and management systems, announces the promotion of Randy Miller to National Sales Manager. WavestoreUSA is also pleased to announce the addition of Legacy Marketing as the newest manufacturer?s representative company supporting the WavestoreUSA product line throughout the Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky, West Virginia, Western PA, and Western NY regions.

Avigilon announced recently that it has acquired 96 more patents for video content analysis software. This comes around a month after it acquired all of Objectvideo?s patents and licensing agreements. Avigilon is a major supplier of video surveillance equipment. Objectvideo supplied patents and licensing agreements for video content analysis software. What does market research firm IHS think this means for the rest of the industry?

It simply works. And in this day and age when so much hype is used to sell products, it is quite refreshing to work with a product that does indeed work straight out of the box. The new SpotCam Monitoring Camera (as it is described on the box) is an ideal home-use Wi-Fi security camera. Weighing in at less than 7-ounces, the best feature of this camera has to be how simple it was to go from box to viewing video on your smartphone. In our case, that was less than 12 minutes.

A mining company employee who refused to submit to biometric hand scanning because he feared the scanner would imprint him with the “Mark of the Beast,” was awarded $150,000 in damages by a federal jury last week.

Continuing its pursuit of the highest possible image quality, VIVOTEK has launched four new 5-Megapixel network cameras: the professional outdoor bullet network cameras IB8381and IB8381-E; the outdoor dome network camera FD8381-EV; and the indoor dome network camera FD8181. Equipped with enhanced image processing technology, these four new cameras provide excellent image quality and finer detail than ever before.

VidSys, a leading global provider of enterprise Physical Security Information Management (PSIM) software, announced that the Board of Directors has named company Founder and Chief Technology Officer James I. Chong as the new Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Chong replaces Michael P. Jackson whom served as Chairman and CEO of VidSys
since Jan 2012.

Software House, part of the Security Products business unit of Tyco, the world?s largest pure-play fire protection and security company, announces the certification of its iSTAR Edge and iSTAR Ultra door controllers under the government?s Federal Information Processing Standards Publications (FIPS) 140-2 program, the most stringent standard for cryptographic products. With the certification of iSTAR Edge and iSTAR Ultra, Software House becomes the first company to offer a full lineup of FIPS 140-2 approved controllers covering a wide range of access control scenarios.

icomply has recently partnered with TIS, one of the UK?s leading independent fire, security, and communications specialists on overhauling the security system of Boots UK – one of the largest commercial brands currently operating in the country. The central security control center at Boots had long since been in need of an update, with many of the current analog hardware becoming unfit for purpose and difficult from which to gather data.

The House Committee on Homeland Security has approved a $10 billion border security bill that demands the full implementation of a biometric entry/exit system for the United States and received support from the Airport Entry and Exit Working Group, International Biometrics and Identification Association (IBIA) and the Security Industry Association (SIA).

Experts say India is mounting the most elaborate security operation in its history US President Barack Obama will be greeted with unprecedented security measures when he lands in Delhi for a three-day visit on Sunday. Thousands of security personnel have been deployed, many roads are blocked to the public, roadblocks have been set up and piles of sandbags have come up at several street corners. Security experts say this is undoubtedly the most elaborate security arrangement India has ever made.

A proposed Colorado bill would require law enforcement to obtain a warrant before using a drone, as well as ban drones from using facial recognition or other biometric technology on individuals unspecified in the warrant, according to a blog post by the Tenth Amendment Center.